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/. Cbe PBorcugine. Abbance _ | 1 The cleanâ€"up season of .the year, spring, is1 we hope, fast siqelbpproaching, and already householders are ‘ planning just weewhat colors they will use for the various rooms in their homes. py This season, however, science, psychology, and household { planners will have a considerable bearing on jthe decision of what colors play an important part in our ‘emotional and physical life, and a little care in selection will help soothe frayed tempers, induce sleep in the bedroom, good digestion in the dining room and comfort in the living/room. No new agreement has been Teached between ‘the proâ€" vincial and Dominion governments to replace the Wantime Tax Agreement which expires March 31. ‘The speech stat the reason is "because of: the refusal of the Dominion Government to reconvene the general conférence which adâ€" Journed last May." ' m _ Amendments will be proposed to the Hours of Wark and Vacations with Payâ€"Act, 1044¢4, with respect to rates of vacation pay, and also to the Workmen‘s Compensation Act, to cover all The Ontario government will resume “jurisdiction over labour relations in the province after the expiration of the Na al Wartime Labour Relations Regulations on March 31, 1947, «_ > y _A study is under way to prepare the extension of police Â¥adio cars in northern Ontario. y ; Amendments. are being considered to allow. local police and firemen the right to collective bargaining between the assocâ€" Qtion and the employing municipality with arbitration:; and at the same time to outlaw improper affiliations and strikes. Mention was made of the completion of 100 miles of road from the Transâ€"Canada Highway to Red Lake:; the generous subsidies given to municipalities for construction of roads, and the statement that new projects will be undertaken as men and materials becomeâ€"available. ®There was no mention, however, of the Sudburyâ€"Timmins highway, which should be the next logical project and would be so important to people residing in the Porcupine district. ° Advisory committees from the research agencies in agriâ€" culture, mines, soils, forestry, wild life and fisheries have been brought together by the Ontario Research Commission to form a more progressive and coâ€"operative research work; . The speech mentions the increased mining activity in rorthern Ontario and that in 1946 more mining claims were recorded than ever before;.with a resultant demand on the Departments of Mines for more geological maps, reports and blueprints. This year the Department intends to send a miniâ€" mum of twelve survey parties into the field and will also assist in the restoration of the mining of gold. 4 The Junior Farm organization, in which northern Ontâ€" ario has three clubs, is showing rapid growth and has assisted in Ontario reaching a record agricultural crop of $733,000,000. The emphasis on agriculture is higher quality, lower costs of production and improved methods of marketing. The reâ€" search made mcluded the short season of northern Ontario. _ for transportation will be offered to students Wishing to attend institutions of higher learning. (Northern municipalities, including Timmins, recently sent a request to Foronto for a university in northern Ontario). Greater asâ€" sistance is; also to be offered for tr anspor‘_ba.tmn of pupils to secondary schools.. Grants for 1947 to elementary and secâ€" ondary.schools will be the samie as in 1946.. (Timmins receivâ€" ed approx. $54,000 in 1946) ty Adult/education and the physical fltness program of the Department of Education are to be closely coâ€"ordinated with the emphasis on citizenship and leadership txammg It will also embrace recreation. nlllke * EVCE EC ad Mn on 1 M NP . plant engmeels knew that the heat had xemamed constant. Orange was substituted for m blue and the ‘chairs were given Oorange covers. Employees then complained that the cafetâ€" eria was too hot although the heat had . never changed. Color caused a physical reaction. Employees saw blue and felt cold; they saw orange and felt hot. By;removing the orange covers. on the chairs the employees thought the heating was back to normal again. | _ Before doing any spring painting or papering the houseâ€" holder can see how wise it is to consult the color experts. Without extra cost he can make a home much more comfortâ€" able and pleasant to live in, warmer or cooler without extra heating or airâ€"conditioning andâ€"more restful and relaxing. : Cool colors are blue, grey, green, violet, purple, white and blueâ€"green. Restful colors include the browns, olives, greyâ€"greens, tans, warm greys and certain blues. f Exciting and sometimes irritating colors are high red, bright orange, brilliantâ€"yellow, brxght blue and emerald green. The speech from the throne delivered to the Ontario Legislative Assembly on March 6 contained many items of interest to:â€"the people of northern Ontario. Warm and cheerful colors are red, orange, yellow, brown, tan, cream; ivory, rose, pink, buff and some warm greys and yellowâ€"greens. Here is the way colors stack up emotionally according to color experts. According to the experts the color of :your breakfast room can make you a cheery morning riser or start the day badly for you. The color of your living room can finish the day restfully or leave you a bundle of, nerves at bedtime. _â€"_Another illustration shows how color wiorks on the human system without:â€"people being awareâ€"of it. | A cafeteria in an industrial plant, which originally had Walls of a neutral gray, was painted blue . during the annual spring cleaning. Immediatelyâ€"complaints poured into the company office that the: â€"éafeteria was too cold, although The bridge was originally painted a glooiny black, and so many people committed suicide from it that !it became known as "Suicide Bridge". London authorities called in a color eXpert On his advice the bridge was painted a bright green. Suicides decreased immediately. l _ This, of course, is an extreme case, but is an excellent illustration of the wisdom in choosing color schemes in the home, for the same principle of colour applies. » "Phe story of London‘s Blackfriars Bridge ‘vividly illustratâ€" es the principles of color psychology and bea1< out the experts reasoning. y uesd j ing, Ontario, Thursday, Marct 18th, 1947 M. W. LAKE, Publisher . .. W. L. McFARLANE, Editor * Subscription Rates: Canada $2.00. Per Year. THE WISDOM OF COLOR SCHIEMES SPEECH FROM THE THRONE n 'reachefi: mmeenm mnts to replace Wa farch 31. ‘The speech sta the refusal of the Domini United States: $3.00 Per Year Almost anything is being blamed. for Bnitain‘s dilemma. The lastest being that the promise of "full empleyment" is causing the trouble, that a certain amount of mmlnyment isâ€"necessary to teach the wonkers industrie) discipline. Yet unemployment is the spectre that exeryane agraeed during the war years must be eliminated. Mewever, thexe daes seem to be some truth in the statement that in emm of ful emâ€" ployment workers‘ productivity gaes down. If it. is. me W the promise of wealth for all employment punched full of holes. And if, when the dm; fim: ]gbour is greater than the supply, workers exploig their rights for continually higher wages, inflation is inev no one will benetit. by the increased wages. I m sounfid logical. ' y A# $s Canadians may well watch Britain‘s strul%gl,e with interest, for whatever happens in Britain might well happen in Canâ€" ada, and, by observation and intelligence the same difficul: ties might be avoided in Canada. l aepriet. 1=.,; *A T18 Now many Britishers are blaming socialism for their troubles and ‘cries are increasing that they never should have listened to it. Yet there is not one party in Britain which could take over the reigns of government and bring. back Britain‘s foreign investments, repair her wornâ€"out mechâ€" anical equipment ,induce the workers to work longer hours, or deviate from the foreéign policy which the Laboyr governâ€" ment: was committed to when they became the vaice of Britâ€" ain. Socialism has not been given a fair tmig yet in Britain. The gevernment blames the unions for warnrting.; a Aveâ€"day week at this crucial : time m imgreased production.means very existence, yet the wonkers were assured throughout. the war that when the war was over technologicalâ€"progress would â€"enable them to work a fiveâ€"day wafik, eartn more money, and have more leisure time to spend it.! Nabo w.anhs to ‘deny the workingman the fveâ€"day: week heworked such long hours for; nobody wants to deny the children another year of school; and everybody is fearful of the Fmpire cracking if the armed forces are withdrawn from vital parts of the lifeline. The problem is not easily solved. ‘ _ ‘There is but one way for Britain to pay her debts. â€" by productlo.n' ~YCet Britain is facedâ€"with a manpower shortage! The unions in 'Brimagn are striking;for a fiveâ€"day week; school children.may have to attend sehoo[l for another year; and. Britain is stil maintaining. Over w millon and .a ‘half armed, men mostly in otzher mumms i nations KHer foreign investments which accounted for. over 25 percent of her national income were gone; her machinery, that rarely ceased turning throughout the long war years, was old and wornâ€"out; her credit with which to purchase raw maâ€" terials to manufacture goods in her factories was gone; and the industries and factories she huilt in other countries to supply her needs in wartime were to prove a detriment in peacetime. The great effort she e;t{pn{ded was to leave her entire economic system exhausted and tottering. But it took more than courage to throw back the German threat; it took money, and to get it Bmitain went down. the ladder from a leading world creditor naftion to a shaky debtor i Britain has just come through a war that taxed her strength and resources to the utmost. With the exception of t;hb British Empire she staod alone against the mightest a,xtray of force the world has ever seen. When Churchill‘s ringing challenge to give their all rang out every true Britâ€" isher responded and the threat to freedom was thrown back. Britain‘s ecconomic crisis, which is predicted to reach a peak this fall, is one that Canadians may well view with mounting alarm and apprehension. The United Kingdom is one of Canada‘s biggest customers, and, even though they aÂ¥e at present purchasing Canadian produce on credit, it is at least helping to keep up Canada‘s high wage scales and standard of living. If Britain economy cracks Canada will defimtely feel the repercussion. If Britain pulls t,hrough thep Canada can benefit from absenrving. _ The point has now been reached in Britain where everyâ€" one is ‘beginning to heave stones. ‘The old parties are blamâ€" ing the sociglist Labour Goyernment, the â€"government is .blamâ€" ing the unionâ€"leaders, andâ€"the umnion â€"leaders areâ€"blaming the gove nment; and the countny‘s dilemma and the present deâ€" pressed standard of living continues. Actually theblame cannot be placed on any one panrty. A minimum wage order for female workers in industry will soon be brought into effect. It was estimated that in 1946 United States tourists exâ€" penced about 130 million dollars in Ontario. This was the first year of the new Department of Travel and Publicity and Ontario received the largest number of tourists in its history. During the coming year, establishments which serve tourists will be classified and licensed. Constructive measures are being prepared to deal with adjustments of population in areas where employment deâ€" mands change. ) occupational diseases attributable to employment, to increase the pensions of widows and children, as well as the pensions for total disability. is lke a cable; we weave a thread of it every day, at.Jlast we can not breal it. .. â€" » t * Ti Coâ€"operation is not a. sentiment â€" it is gn economle neeessity ADVANCE, TIMMITNS, ONTARtO *4 \ 2 d Max agreed. Things were better the way they were, no rules, no regulaâ€" tions, come and go.when you please; ‘‘no‘fines for being late, no fines for leaving early, no fines for not singing loud. enough and no fines for not singing at all. No particular meal to eat, order what you like and when you like. In fact, start with dessert and work back to the soup if you wished. "That‘s the joy of being a bachelor, who â€"wants regulations and schedules." ‘"Evidently," interjected Sam, "you have never had any experience with children. About the only child who might build a soapâ€"box racer at the age of seven would be a child prodâ€"‘ igy, and all child prodigies are either scraping away on a violin or poundâ€" ing away an a piano, they‘ve no time for soap box derbies." The Sage arose, masticating furiously on a piece of northern beef, swallowâ€" ed hard, coughed impressively and The questions were fair ones but the Chief Helmsman merely scratched his pate and answered calmly. "Well, we‘ll raise the age limit for the little duffers. Say an age limit of seven, by that time they should be able to build some kind of a vehicle." Ken had a word on . the subject. "But how,"â€"hesaid, "are you: going to train. bowâ€"legged babies to steer soap boxes?" You can‘t just take them from their goâ€"carts, shove them into a soap box and say, ‘go to it kids‘. « Besides, in a soapâ€"box derby the vehicles are supâ€" posed to be built by â€"the drivers, and how is a muling infant going to build a roaring fast soapâ€"box?" Tre Chief Helmsman scratched his pate thoughtfully. Suddenly his face lighted.. ‘"We can make it a soap box derby,‘ he said. "That‘s it, someâ€" thing that has never been attempted in Tnmmlm , + "Well, what will the contest be and the age limit?" asked the practical Jerry. $ The Chief Helmsman interrupted. "Gentlemen, I‘ve decided we‘re going to put on a drive for something, even if it‘s just a contest for bowâ€"legged babies with â€"an allâ€"day sucker as Jerry instantly objected. He wasn‘t going underground. It was difficult enough doing business on the surface without trying to conduct it underâ€" ground. Sam hastened to explain that he didn‘t intend the club should meet in some abandoned mine or forsaken well but just that we.should not advertise that we were putting on a drive for members. The publicity might have an adverse effect. The Chief Helmsman then proposed a drive for members. Sam, the cauâ€" tious Scot, pointed out that if the club started a drive for members the girls of the town might start a drive to take members away, a feud would start in which the Bachelor‘s Club might come off the loser with a deâ€" pleted: membership. The sort of thing fo the club to do is cary on an underground campaign. The proposal aroused considerable discussion, but at a final vote it was defeated. Initiating anyone would be too much effort and would shorten the evening‘s reading time: getting initiated would be too hard on a memâ€" ber and his laundry bill; and it was doubtful if the restaurant would sancâ€" tion a real oldâ€"fashioned initiation within its confines. So initiation was eliminated for it was written in black and white in the Bachelor‘s constituâ€" tion that if an initiation should be held it must be one that a member would never forget as long as he lived, and it was reasoned that if he should have to go to hospital he would undoubtedly meet nurses, and if he met nurses in a weakened conâ€" dition, and they applied a couple of soothing alcohol rubs it would probâ€" ably be the end .of the member‘s bachelor life. Initiations were too dangerous. ‘"What about initiation or induction into the Bachelors Club," saidâ€" Sam: "No member feels he‘s really a memâ€" ber of an organization until he‘s walked the plank blindfolded, been dunked like a doughnut, or run the gauntlet." As arrangements for the dance had not been made the Chief Helmsman suggested that the club foster some kind of drive in aid of something. Timmins was noted for its welfare and a club wasn‘t really a club in the golden city until it had a good drive for something in its teeth. It was a sort of drive that made the club idea. _ At any rate it was agreed that the members were at least open to proposals. to the speaker even if they were knawing.at a chop or a steak. And, it would leave more time later in the evening for bridge, shows. etc. Phil acted as Chief Helmsman for the meeting. The Bachelor‘s Club, after a conâ€" siderable discussion which always takes place before every mamentous decision, ~decided to start their meetâ€" ings immediately after the . soup course; by then the members would be attentive and able to pay attention In United States 6 people are killed every hour as a result of traffic accir dents. The traffic officials in that country have formulated a plan to combat the ever rising toll of traffic accidents, known as the three "E‘s", Engineering, Enforcement and Educaâ€" tion, the most potent weapon to reâ€" duce traffic accidents being education. In 1947 they are going to wage an all out war on traffice accidents, in an effort to make the streets and highâ€" ways assuredly safe for ail citizens. What are we going to do in Canada? That is a question we must answer, not next yeéear or next month but now. We can‘talk about the power of the Atom Bomb and all its destructive tendexncies, ‘but we must realize that the at’omobile is an Atom Bomb on wheels, which rushes over our streets and highways, killing and injuring our citizens. We, as good citizens, must wake up from our period of apathy, and realize that a traffic accident is not something that canr be easily brushed aside, but that it is someâ€" thing we must study, find out the cause, and then work out the preventâ€" ive measure, to reduce such accidents. Since the close of hostilities, motor manufacturers have turned to the mass production of motor vehicles, to meet the public demand. With the increase of motor vehicles upon our Sstreets and highways an increase of traffic accidents is certain unless much is done toâ€" educate people on safety. Traflic experts have said that the traffic accident problem is a menace to our civlization. â€" How true this is when we face the facts. During the last 6 years of war, 19839 to 1945, Canâ€" ada had 94,000 casualties in her armâ€" ed forces, killed wounded and missing. During the same 6 year period, there were 170,000 casualties on our streets and highways, 10,000 persons met a violent. death. Many ‘of the 160,000 injured., will be. hopeless eripples for. the â€"rest of thier lives. We all Took on war asâ€" Hell, we expect that our loved ones may be killed or wounded, but in regards to the motor vehicle we look on it as a convenience, a pleaâ€" sure of the modern age of speed and more speed. But most of us have igâ€" nored the seriousness of the situation that is facing all of us. Death lurks upor:n our streets and highways, waiting, watching, always on the look out for that careless inâ€" dividual, whether it be a driver, a tyclist or a pedestrian. Death strikes in a flash of a second, thexn recoils ready to strike again. sputtered, "Is everything all right fellows?" then gave a sickly grin, regained his composure and said, "That wasn‘t what I intended to say. This matter about child prodigies, violins, pianos and soapâ€"boxes. I maintain that comes before sdapâ€"box derbies, music is educationâ€" al, music is enlightening, music gives a man something to doâ€"in his old age. Imagine a man of seventy not knowâ€" ing what to do with his spare time out riding in a soap box: wouldn‘t it be much better and less embarrassing for chis children and grandâ€"children if the were to sit down at the piano and play Beethoven‘s Moonlight ata?" The sage looked around confi« dently, certain he had spiked the soap boxes before the* youngsters could get the wheels on. "Didn‘t you ever read." began the cautious Scot, "how Britain‘s greatest battles were won on the playing fields of <Eton. How Drake finished his towling game before he went out and scuttled the Spanish fleet. Sport and exercise and games for our youngâ€" sters are much more important than music. Supposing Drake and Nelson had stood on the foredeck of the superstructure of their ships and played the violin when they came in sight of the Spaniards or Wellington‘s men at Waterlo had wheeled out a grand piano in front of the army for him to play Beethoven‘s Moonlight Sonata, what do you suppose would have happened?" Achill was the next problem. A soap box derby was out of the quesâ€" tion without a hill, and, a hill that ended in the centre of town. Timmins‘ hills began in the centre of town and ran into the suburbs. Here was a problem. _ However, the matter was quickly disposed of by the Chief Helmsman, who appointed Chester and Jerry to look into the matter of a hill for a soap box derby. Comâ€" mittees are wonderful things. â€"The meéembers applauded at his exâ€" cellent speech. «The Sage sputtered and stammered, ~but the Sceot had won. Timmins would have a soap box derby. SCOTT‘S SCRAP, BOOK T IS PERSIAN NOMN SENSE . Traffic Safet Anp 4ߣ Aubi,s In this essential campaign, the time for talking about the issue is over, we must put on our overalls and get down in the field and work and sweat to solve this problem. We, as good citizens of this vast country must not casually pass over the scenes of twisted wreckage and battered bodies, and blazing headlines about ~serious traffic accidents with a shrug of our shoulders and say, that can‘t happen to me, it ‘only happens to the eareless fellow. We must realize thab an acâ€" cident does not care who you j _-e what position you hold in the «cof how famous you are. An accident is not bluffed by your size or reputation. An accident is uo respector of age, young or old. But an accident has great respect for the use of common sense on our streets and highwaysâ€" Remember, Accidents don‘t just hapâ€" pen. Accidents are caused by the carelessness of some person or persons, Don‘t let that person be you. Surely the protection of life and limb is one of the most vital matters that we must consider. HEALTH GAME A game entitled "Eat Rightâ€"Score High" is available for health educa=â€" tion in Canada particularly for schools. It is based on Canada‘s Food Rules and provides amusement as well as instrucâ€" tion. The games are obtainable through provincial Health departments and local Health Units. This is an important Red Cross serâ€" vice and a costly ‘one with results measured in terms of lives saved. More than one fifth of the $5,000,000 budget required by the Society in 1947 will be used to ensure the availâ€" ability of lifeâ€"saving whole blood and plasma threugh our hospitals to all Canadians from coast to coast. Your support is needed . . . Now! Those who remember the part playâ€" ed by blood plasma and blood proâ€" ducts in saving lives during the war will realize the importance of this peacetime service. Every day there are insurances of civilians, mothers in children, victims of fire and those suffering through accident, illness and disease, needing blood to save their lives. The majority of Canadian hosâ€" pitals find difficulty in providing sufâ€" ficient blood to meet emergencies To meet the needs of Canadian hospitals, the Red Cross is establishâ€" ing, as part of its peacetime proâ€" gramme, a completely free Blood Transfusion Service. This new activâ€" ity will eventually make it possible for every hospital in Canada, and the patients they serve, to obtain a conâ€" stant supply of whole blood and plasâ€" ma free of charge. One of the major factors contriâ€" buting to the causes of death in the Dominion is the lack of~ adequate transfusion facilities in our hospitals to cope with accidents and other illâ€" nesses, that building and was present at the oOpening of it, and in all the names of players that you mentioned you did not say a thing about CP.R. Joe. Now there is no doubt Frank Maâ€" guire was good but he belonged to the 1920 and later years players but C.P.R. Joe was the first outstarmling of Timmins hockey players in the old days of Point, Cover Point and Rovers, etec., which as you know meant always someone in the way anywhere on the ice. I certainly think that in the hockey hall of fame you called for Timmins Arena there should be a place for CP.R. Joe. Yours truly, J. M. Woods. Hyâ€"Way Service Station Haileybury, Ontario. To Now old C.P.R. could stick handle his way through a bunch of players and when he took a shot there was hot smoke on it and the goalie someâ€" times went backward with the walâ€" lop. Besides that Joe made the puck go to the target he shot at, there was none of that missing by a few feet: and one thing, but most important, he had a cool level head: kept clear of fights and played his hockey on the ice and not in the penalty box. ADD CP.R. JOK To HOCKEY HALL OF F Dear Sir â€" re your history of The Timmins Arena. Red Cross Blood Transfusion Service eh" of PAAVO uuum,'{ “ 1ME GREAT FINH RYUNNER,!5 SAIPD BE NEARLY THREE TiMESs 4!: _$1zE or A uomu.u%gm’ C Porcupine Advance. on the construction of March 10â€"47